Hubba, Hubba -meaning

: I read the previous threads and didn't see what I was
looking for. Being from the South, this is the story I was told and wanted to
confirm.

: .Which market the Century Dictionary was referring to is made plain
by the nineteenth-century American trade journals that I've consulted. Fair and
middling were terms in the cotton business for specific grades - the sequence
ran from the best quality (fine), through good, fair, middling and ordinary to
the least good (inferior), with a number of intermediates, one being middling
fair .